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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1978-05-25

Place of Birth

Siricilla, Telangana, India

Venu Yeldandi

Biography

Venu Yeldandi (born May 25, 1978), also known as Jabardasth Venu, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and actor who works in Telugu cinema. He began his screen career as a comedic actor, debuting in *Jai* (2004) before appearing in comedic and supporting roles across numerous features, including *Munna* (2007), *Kantri* (2008), *Pilla Zamindar* (2011), *Atharintiki Daaredi* (2013), and *Race Gurram* (2014). He also performed in television sketch comedy and featured in the streaming comedy series *Save the Tigers* (2023). In 2023, Yeldandi made his feature directorial and writing debut with the rural family drama *Balagam*. The film earned him the Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu, the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu, and the SIIMA Award for Best Debut Director – Telugu. His subsequent acting credits include *Darling* (2024).

Known for

Save the Tigers

Save the Tigers

Revolves around three frustrated husbands who meet by chance and how their rants over their marital problems set off a series of crazy events.

Mrs. Subbalakshmi

Mrs. Subbalakshmi

Revolves around a woman struggling to free herself from the daily doldrums of marriage. After her workaholic husband, who barely notices her, forgets their wedding anniversary, Subbu takes her friend's well-intentioned advice and decides to take a day off for herself. The series then follows her one-day escapade.

Takkari

Takkari

A bright young man who wants to become a realtor, much to the chagrin of his father, gets entwined into gambling. He eventually falls in love with a girl who brings him back on the right path.

Shikaaru

Shikaaru

A housewife enters into an extra-marital relationship and almost gets caught red-handed by her cop-husbandand her relatives.

Aagadu

Aagadu

Shankar, a trigger-happy encounter specialist with a tragic past, is posted to Bokkapatnam village , to halt the illegal operations of the influential don Damodar, whose dream project is to build a power plant also with whom Shankar has a personal score to settle.

Kavacham

Kavacham

Vijay, an upright police officer, finds himself framed for a high-profile kidnapping case after attempting to help a woman in distress. With his department and the public turned against him, he has 24 hours to uncover the conspiracy behind the setup, apprehend the real culprits, and prove his innocence.

Munna

Munna

Munna (Prabhas) is a college student. His aim is to finish off mafia don Kakha (Prakash Raj) who keeps the entire city under his grip. Munna has personal vengeance to take on Kakha. An honest politician Srinivasa Rao (Kota Srinivasa Rao) relentlessly works to expose Kakha but gets killed. Meanwhile, Munna’s classmate Nidhi (Ileana D'Cruz) falls in love with him. The twist in the tale is that Kakha is none other than his estranged father who tries to sell off his mother and was responsible for the death of his mother and his kid sister. Another don in the city named Aatma, who is the opposition of Kakha (Rahul Dev) asks Munna to join him. But Munna refuses his proposal. Munna starts to beat Kakha and the mind game begins. Kakha's second wife and son-daughter left him and join Munna. After some incidents including the death of his best friend, Munna finds out that Aatma was working for Kakha all along.

Sukumarudu

Sukumarudu

Sukumar, a selfish wealthy man, returns to his village in order to ascertain his rights over the family property. However, he faces problems due to a few family members and ends up falling in love.

Nakshatram

Nakshatram

A young boy is made to realise that the police form the backbone of society and every cop is akin to Lord Hanuman the protector. He then makes up his mind about becoming a cop when he grows up.​

Nenevaru

Nenevaru

Krish and Chitra are in love. After Chitra goes missing, Krish starts killing people. But one day Akshara befriends him and get to know more about his life. What will happen when Akshara is revealed to be an undercover cop?

Siddu from Srikakulam

Siddu from Srikakulam

Siddu from Srikakulam

Brand Babu

Brand Babu

Diamond Babu (Sumanth Shailendra) is person who is obsessed with brands, he inherits the quality from his father who ensures even the match box used in his house is of reputed brand and dress code at a funeral is white and white, he moulds his son like him.

Balagam

Balagam

A boisterous, bawdy, meddling village patriarch Komurayya’s death just before the engagement changes the course of his grandson Saayilu's life and the other family members, rattling some skeletons in the closet, exposing the rifts present within the family, causing bigger sociological calamities in the small village.

Ankith Pallavi and Friends

Ankith Pallavi and Friends

It is tale of youngsters and their love and dilemmas in life. Ankit is passionate about music and refuses to sacrifice his goal. This creates rifts between lovers.

Race Gurram

Race Gurram

Ram and Lakshman, aka Lucky, are brothers who are polar opposites in nature. Their mother wishes to see them united.